Dr Noor Liana Binti Mat Yajit completed and received her PhD (Biochemistry) in 2019 at the National University of Malaysia, UKM under the scholarship of the Higher Ministry of Education. While waiting for her viva, she got an offer to join the Malaysia Genome and Vaccine Institute (MGVI) under the Mass Spectrometry Technology Section as a Technologist who specialises in Proteomics. After two years of service, she joined the University of Malaya on Mac 2021 as a Research Officer at the University Malaya Centre for Proteomics Research (UMCPR). With this expertise, she received a Professional Technologist recognition from the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT) on March 2024